August 04, 2025
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A new Stack Overflow survey highlights a steep decline in trust and reliance on AI coding tools, as users get more discerning.
Stack Overflow’s annual survey of nearly 50,000 developers acts as a useful benchmark of how software engineers are feeling, and this year’s results suggest a steep decline in sentiment around AI coding tools.
This year, 33% of developers said they trust the accuracy of the outputs they receive from AI tools, down from 43% in 2024. At the same time, how favourably developers think of adding AI tools into their workflow fell steeply, from 72% in 2024 to 60% this year.
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August 04, 2025
